News Briefs

By SD Times News Team

June 1, 2006 —

Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to port Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system to Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem chip set. Qualcomm is expected to begin supporting Windows Mobile 5.0 on Convergence Platform MSM chip sets in the second half of this year.

NEW PRODUCTS
InstallAware has announced the release of Setup Squeezer, an application to recompress Windows Installer and InstallShield setups. Setup Squeezer allows already compressed setups to reduce in size by an additional 15 percent to 20 percent. It enables software developers to use the InstallAware package compression without having to migrate Windows Installer to the InstallAware development environment

. . . Oracle last month announced Oracle Daily Business Intelligence for Compliance, an embedded compliance management reporting system for Oracle’s E-Business Suite. It provides prebuilt, compliance-focused performance indicators and reports that show business performance and risk indictors in a dashboard environment

. . . FeatherySoft has launched Animated Chart 1.0, a Flash tool created to help Web designers add graphs and charts to Web sites. The company claims it does not require knowledge of Flash or HTML. It costs US$49. A professional edition, which costs $69, enables users to get real-time Web charts and graphs from dynamic data . . . Dart Communications has announced PowerSNMP for .NET, adding SNMP version 1, 2 and 3 communications directly to .NET applications. It provides a multilevel object model that the company claims reduces the complexity of building enterprise management applications. C# and Visual Basic source code can be created from management information base (MIB) files at design time for inclusion in the project, and dynamic classes can be compiled from MIB files at runtime

. . . XA-Suite 4, an SOA design tool, has been released by XAware. The new version packages XAware applications into portable and deployable XAware archive (xar) files. Other features include copybook and SAP BizComponent support, and enhanced wizard-driven processes

. . . Above All Software has introduced the Above All Knowledge Pack for the SAP R/3 Enterprise solution release 4.7. It is a semantic service component that automatically generates business services by mining the underlying SAP system. The business services can then be assembled into composite applications. SAP has certified the Knowledge Pack.

Upgrades
Quest Software has released Toad for MySQL 2.0, with advanced administration and security capabilities for managing MySQL databases. The new version also adds more reporting options, version control integration that allows users to check in and out code from within the editor, a database security manager to permit or restrict users, and the ability to record and play back keyboard commands. The full production version is available at no charge; a supported version can be purchased for US$170 per seat . . . AquaFold has released Aqua Data Studio 4.7, a complete database administration and query tool for IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and others. A new Visual Query builder enables users to graphically select tables, views and relationships to build queries. A new Oracle Rollback Manager allows the monitoring and maintenance of rollback segments, including current statements, transactions and execution plans. The rewritten Auto-Completion Parser supports almost any SQL syntax. Aqua Data Studio 4.7 runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows . . . Sun Microsystems in May upgraded its Java Card platform and development kit to version 2.2.2, adding stronger cryptography and support for biometric and contactless user identification and authentication. The SDK for Linux, Solaris and Windows also now supports Apache’s Ant build tool and PC-SC card readers . . . Microsoft in May released SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1, with most enhancements for the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. SP1 addresses bugs in SQL Server 2005’s analysis, integration and reporting services, and shortcomings in the performance of the database engine. SP1 also includes production-grade database mirroring, along with other fixes expected in a first collection of patches. SQL Server 2005 SP1 is available now for download at www.microsoft.com/sql/ctp_sp1.mspx . . . TechExcel in early June will add Web-based communication features to DevTrack 6.1, the latest version of its defect tracking system. The company also will add the ability to track bug fixes that are addressed across multiple software releases. Also in June, TechExcel plans to release DevPlan, a new tool that will add project planning capabilities to bug tracking databases . . . Bram Moolenaar, the primary force behind Vim, the GUI-based version of the classic Unix text editor Vi, has announced that version 7 is complete. This new version features on-the-fly spell-checking, a vastly enhanced pantheon of translations for the editor’s documentation and internal grep capabilities. The original Vi was written in 1976 by Bill Joy, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems. Vim is an open-source project, and is available for free from vim.org.

People
Jacada has appointed Paul O’Callaghan as president of its North American, Latin American and European operations. Prior to joining Jacada, O’Callaghan served as SVP of global sales and services at Optio Software. He also held senior sales and marketing positions at Cisco Systems . . . MetaMatrix has announced the appointment of James Dougherty as CEO and president. Previously, Dougherty was the head of global markets and operations for technology industry research and consulting firm Gartner.

Standards
The OASIS international standards consortium has announced that its members have approved Business-Centric Methodology version 1.0 as an OASIS standard. BCM is a set of layered methods for acquiring interoperable e-business information within communities. It serves as a map for organizations, based on open standards, to identify and exploit business success factors in a technology-neutral manner.

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